Project
Green Haiti
Earthquake
Emergency
Solar
Dome Televillage Initiative
Project
Green Haiti is a roadmap to rebuild Haiti’s devastated
economy into a green economy in order to create a sustainable future.
The
Earthquake Emergency Solar Dome Televillage Initiative project offers a
framework, platform, and tools for the homeless to gain the knowledge
they need to direct their economic destiny and improve their lives.
The
mission is to create a network of Solar Dome Televillages connected to
the Internet and powered with solar energy throughout the
country. Our vision is to educate and empower the poor and
homeless of the world to gain the knowledge and capabilities that will
enable them to create a high standard of living in a global sustainable
future.
We
are at the end of the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the
Green Technology and Information Revolutions in which renewable energy
and digital technology will power and inform a new entrepreneurial Age
of Distributed Power -- and Distributed Empowerment.
Read full document here (pdf)
Project
Green Haiti in 1995 (see photos - right):
In the summer of 1995, Les Hamasaki, President of
SUN Utility Network, Inc. initiated Project Green Haiti in an effort to
introduce solar thermal vacuum tube technology for solar medical
autoclave system to sterilize medical instruments for a clinic in
Port-au-Prince and for a hospital in Mombin-Croehu, a remote
hospital. The project was funded through the Medical
Benevolence Foundation in Houston, Texas.
Mr.
Hamasaki joined a team of volunteers made up of Dr. Hank Watt, medical
doctor and solar medical autoclave innovator Khanh Dinh to install the
systems in Haiti with the help of local solar contractors. Solar
photovoltaic systems were providing electricity to both of these
facilities. According to recent reports, the solar medical
autoclaves were still operating to sterilize medical instruments used
for operations.
Homeless to
Homeownership
Solar
Dome Televillage Jobs Initiative
The Homeless Shelter Jobs
Initiative aims to empower jobless and homeless persons to become part
of the emerging 'green collar' workforce or to become eco-entrepreneurs
to participate in the barely-started home-energy-retrofit jobs programs
-- and in the process eventually qualify to become
homeowners. Over 1.5 million homes have been foreclosed in
the United States, impacting the value of homes and neighborhoods, and
American cities’ budgets. These homes can be
retrofitted with energy-efficient products and smart appliances as well
as with rooftop solar-photovoltaic systems to generate electricity and
solar-thermal systems to heat water and provide space
heating. And these homes can be 'wifi'-enabled to help their
owners to telecommute to work or start home-based businesses.
The goal is to train the
jobless, homeless, and jobless-homeless to become energy auditors,
weatherization and energy-efficiency installers, technicians and
professionals, and solar-energy technology consultants and technicians
who can retrofit America's foreclosed homes and stabilize the country's
neighborhoods.
The Green Technology Institute,
Inc. (GTI), a public-benefit organization, established by the Tom
Bradley Legacy Foundation, Inc. and InterShelter, Inc. (ISI), a
for-profit dome shelter manufacturer, have launched the Solar Dome
Televillages Project to address the needs of the growing numbers of
American homeless/jobless and, in parallel, the home foreclosure crises
in the U.S. The challenge is to train the homeless and
jobless with new skills in the green technology (GT) and information
technology (IT) sectors.
Read full document here (pdf).
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